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Re: Debian secure by default?



On Friday 16 May 2008 07:01:38 pm lostson wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 06:42 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> > Rico Secada wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > Why is Debian not setup to be secure be default?
> > >
> > > Not everyone is a security expert so imho the system should be fully
> > > secured out-of-the-box.
> >
> > Please elaborate on what you consider to be the insecure parts of a
> > default installation. Describe a process by which an etch system can be
> > compromised remotely. Obviously, the ability to become root by tweaking
> > the boot parameters from the grub screen does not count as a
> > vulnerability.
>
>  My 2 cents a default firewall would be nice

You mean like Windows has?  How about not.  Here's why:
http://samspade.org/d/firewalls.html

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Paul Johnson
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